[Openstack] Network interfaces with VMware & Neutron OVS

Romain Ziba romain.ziba at gmail.com
Mon Jan 27 08:48:21 UTC 2014


Hello,
thanks for your replies. Do you know which repo I should use to get...
quantum-plugin-nicira? neutron-plugin-nicira? neutron-plugin-vmware? I am
working on centOS 6.5.

Thanks beforehand.


2014-01-25 Armando M. <armamig at gmail.com>

> The plugin is only being rebranded at the moment. More architectural
> changes are on the way but we recognize that backward compatibility is
> paramount therefore we'll strive to maintain it.
>
>  As far as Havana is concerned everything is still the same. If you
> are working against master you can track the progress of the
> rebranding here:
>
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/nicira-plugin-renaming
>
> At this point everything installs as usual.
>
> Hope this help!
> Armando
>
> On 24 January 2014 06:26, Romain Ziba <romain.ziba at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've just found that Nicira NVP doesn't exist anymore: No more packages
> > neutron-plugin-nicira. It seems that VMware now works on VMware NSX and
> this
> > is not available by downloading... Am I right?
> > If yes, what are my options?
> >
> > Thanks beforehand.
> > Romain
> >
> >
> > 2014/1/24 Romain Ziba <romain.ziba at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >> thanks Gary. You've just confirmed my fear...
> >> Do you have a link that explains precisely how to setup the NVP plugin?
> >> I've found some documentation around the official documentation but
> it's not
> >> very detailed.
> >>
> >> Thanks & Best regards.
> >> Romain.
> >>
> >>
> >> 2014/1/24 Gary Kotton <gkotton at vmware.com>
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>> At the moment the only supported Neutron plugin with the VMware drivers
> >>> is the NVP plugin. The NVP works with hybrid setups.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>> Gary
> >>>
> >>> From: Romain Ziba <romain.ziba at gmail.com>
> >>> Date: Friday, January 24, 2014 11:24 AM
> >>> To: "openstack at lists.openstack.org" <openstack at lists.openstack.org>
> >>> Subject: [Openstack] Network interfaces with VMware & Neutron OVS
> >>>
> >>> Hello, I've configured a multi-node infrastructure with a controller
> and
> >>> two compute nodes. One of the compute node is a basic QEMU and the
> other one
> >>> is a VMware compute node using the VMwareESXDriver. On the controller,
> I
> >>> have configured Neutron using OpenVSwitch.
> >>>
> >>> Everything works fine with a VM created on the QEMU hypervisor. But
> when
> >>> I create a VM with cirrOS on VMware via Openstack, the network
> interfaces
> >>> are not recognized by the OS. I can see thanks to Vsphere Client that
> the VM
> >>> has a network adapter connected to br-int but nothing in the OS (no
> eth0).
> >>>
> >>> I'm wondering if the problem comes from OpenVSwitch. I've read in some
> >>> docs that OpenVSwitch is not compatible with a VMware compute node.
> >>> http://docs.openstack.org/grizzly/ope...
> >>>
> >>> However, in this doc, the problem is not raised:
> >>> http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/confi...
> >>>
> >>> Then, what's your opining? Do I have to change for NVP plugin? Is the
> >>> problem somewhere else?
> >>>
> >>> Is it easy to change OVS plugin to NVP?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks beforehand.
> >>>
> >>> Best regards,
> >>>
> >>> Romain.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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